Honiara

The National Referral Hospital and many communities living near rivers and streams were flooded early this morning.

RNZ reports water filled up wards and corridors at the hospital leaving patients unable to move and causing concern about dangers with the electrical wiring.

People living near streams and rivers evacuated to higher ground fearing another flood situation like April 2014.

Those floods killed 16 people, left some 10,000 homeless and caused widespread damage.

The MOU now paved the way for a SB$747,807 (US$93,775) assistance towards SINU’s Institute of Tourism and Hospitality.

The financial assistance is part of the Solomon Islands Enhanced Integrated Framework’s (EIF) Tier two project for Solomon Islands Tourism for Inclusive Development (SI-TIDE). 

The SI-TIDE project is located within the Ministry of Culture and Tourism (MCT) and is overseen by the EIF’s National Implementation Unit (NIU) in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and External Trade (MFAET).